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In 1899, just eighteen months after leading Australia to a 4-1 series victory over England and regaining the Ashes, Harry Trott was admitted to Melbourne's famous Kew Asylum for "Lunatics". His biographer Rick Smith discusses the possible reasons for his stay there.
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